Small and Big Facts of the Week

- The strength champion Rigoulot travels from Le Bourget to London by airplane.
- In Metz, military authorities search for flags buried in the ground in 1870.
- The dollar exceeds 20 francs and the pound sterling 100 francs.
- The famous actor Lucien Guitry dies in Paris.
- The Sarrebourg city council votes 10,000 francs for the monument to General Mangin.
- In Calcutta, in a very populous neighborhood, a jackal enters a veranda, grabs a baby, and disappears.
- The United States lends fifty million dollars to the Italian Treasury.
- Polish swimmer Willy Wolf dies after diving from the Nantes Transporter Bridge into the Loire.
- Five new British cruisers will soon be under construction.
- Mr. Gaston Doumergue visits Strasbourg and delivers an important speech.
- The Grand Prix de Printemps at Saint-Cloud is won by "Pitchoury".
- Mr. Poincaré inaugurates the Montmédy war memorial.
- The Latvian National Choir is heard at the Élysée Palace.
- Mr. Georges Guillaumin is elected President of the Paris City Council.
- Six hundred Chinese soldiers mutiny and sixty are executed.
- A Mauritius stamp valued at 11,000 francs is stolen on Rue Drouot.
- Astronomer Camille Flammarion and writer Pierre Louys die.
- The Queen of the Belgians is in Paris.
- The heat kills three hundred people in New York.
- In Chantilly, "Aquatinte" wins the Grand Prix de Diane.
- A vale de chambre disappears with 500,000 francs worth of jewelry.
- The Gordon Bennett Cup spheres land on the Channel coast.
- The Polish bandit captain is caught in Paris.
- A Fragonard painting, Fanchon la Vielleuse, sold for 680,000 francs.